AZ-304 Azure Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Question 1

What does the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) represent in a disaster recovery plan?

Accepted Answer

The maximum acceptable time to restore a service after a disaster

Answer

The maximum amount of data loss measured in time

Answer

The replication frequency between primary and secondary regions

Answer

The scheduled backup interval

Question 2

Which Azure service is used to orchestrate the replication and failover of Azure VMs to a secondary region for disaster recovery?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery

Answer

Azure Backup

Answer

Azure Traffic Manager

Answer

Azure Migrate

Question 3

A company requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of near zero for a mission-critical Azure SQL Database. Which feature should be used?

Accepted Answer

Active Geo-Replication

Answer

Long-Term Retention backups

Answer

Point-in-Time Restore

Answer

Auto-failover groups with grace period

Question 4

Which Azure SQL Database feature provides automatic failover with a configurable grace period and maintains read/write DNS endpoints that automatically redirect after failover?

Accepted Answer

Auto-Failover Groups

Answer

Active Geo-Replication

Answer

Elastic Jobs

Answer

Long-Term Retention

Question 5

Which Azure Backup feature allows you to retain database backups for up to 10 years to meet long-term compliance requirements?

Accepted Answer

Long-Term Retention (LTR)

Answer

Point-in-Time Restore

Answer

Geo-Redundant Backup

Answer

Soft Delete

Question 6

An architect is designing a disaster recovery solution where the secondary site must be ready to take over within minutes with minimal infrastructure cost. Which DR pattern should be chosen?

Accepted Answer

Warm Standby (pilot light)

Answer

Cold Standby

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Hot Standby (active-active)

Answer

Backup and Restore